A week with the "Kids"

The "Kids" (Bill, Tracy, Alicia, Vivian, Kelsi) came on Sat, April 2 and left today Sat, April 9.  It was sad to see them leave.  We had a week of non-stop going.

They got here Sat. about 4 in the afternoon.  Ed really wanted to have them experience a helicopter ride.  So around 6 we took them down to do that and then to another place to feed the gators.  Kelsi said, the helicopter ride was the best thing she had ever done.  Vivi loved feeding the gators.  We forgot to take our camera so I don't have pictures of either.

Sunday we went to a dinner show called the Arabian Knights.  It was nice, but I thought it was going to be a play.  It was more like a horse show.  But I think everyone enjoyed it.  There was a pre-show.  I think Ed and Bill enjoyed it.

After the show we went over to a small carnival that had a ride called the sling shot.  The thing shoots you straight up in the air.  Alicia and Kelsi rode it first, then Bill and Vivi.  Alicia did a lot of screaming, but they all loved it.  They each got a T-shirt and a video of their ride.

Monday we went to Universal Studios all day.  The crowds weren't too bad and the weather was great.  We got the girls park hopper tickets so they also went over to Islands of Adventure.  I had heard they had more roller coasters over there.  Anyway, they were able to enjoy both parks.  I think one was enough for the rest of  us.

                                                                I think Vivi was done

Tuesday we had rain and the temp. dropped.  We sat around in the morning and later in the day went to Wonder Works.  It's a "indoor amusement park for the mind".  It's an interactive exhibits for everyone.  Since the weather was bad, we needed and indoor activity.   The place was packed.  I guess everyone had the same idea as us. 

                                                         Ed lying on a bed of nails.

Bill and Ed had reservations for a fishing trip on Wednesday on the Canaveral Star at Cape Canaveral which was about 1 1/2 hours away.  They left at 5:30 that morning.  They didn't really catch anything big and what they caught was out of season and they had to throw it back.  Bill loved it and Ed ended up sleeping on the boat about 3 hours.  He could have done that at home.  The girls went shopping.

Bill thought he had "Jaws" but he only had hooked the bottom of the sea.  He had everyone excited

                                                                The biggest fish caught all day

                                                               The smallest one caught. 

We were going to do Daytona Beach on Thursday and a water park on Friday.  The water parks here are $50 dollars and we weren't sure we wanted to spend the money.  And we also decided we were getting tired.  Wonder Works has a rope challenge course, and because the lines were so long we didn't get to do it on Tuesday so we decided to go back and do it.  Than we took the girls to go ride go-karts.  Ed and Bill stayed home.  They both had a little too much fun in the sun the day before.

                 I actually did this one.  Ed was surprised.  We were up about 20 feet in the air.  It was exciting
Friday we went to Daytona Beach.  It was a little bit of a ride.  Ninety miles away.  On the way there we stopped at McDonalds for breakfast.  After we left, we got on the toll road and when we get ready to pay the toll Tracy realizes she left her bag back at McDonalds.  What a stressful moment.  We call Bill, he is in the other car ahead of us and tell him to go on and we turn around to go back.  Well the toll road isn't a easy on, easy off road like in Indiana.  We got off, but there is no getting on the other side.  But we had our GPS, called Alice, with us.  I remembered there was a Target behind the McDonalds, and we had been on hwy 50.  I was able to put this in and Alice took us a round about way, but got us there.  Someone had turned in the bag (thank you Lord).  We got it and got back on the road.  We only lost a little over 1/2 hour.  Bill and the girls (they had been in the car with him) went on to Daytona Race track and were able to see it while waiting for us.  The beach was beautiful and we all got a little bit of a sunburn.

During this week the girls have also enjoyed the pool and played shuffleboard and one day we played miniature golf.  They have a real nice coarse here in the park.  Tracy found out she really likes shuffleboard, is she getting old or what?  lol  She was hoping to get home last night to play one more time but we didn't make it. 

All in all, we had a wonderful week and I am really going to miss them.


HAPPY TRAILS     Love  Ed and Lyn